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Burning coal may be killing over 100,000 people in India every year
2013-03-13 20:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: India's dependence on coal-fired power plants for energy may be leading directly to the deaths of 80,000 to 115,000 of its citizens every year, according to the first ever report on the health impacts of coal in the country. The report, commissioned by the Conservation Action Trust and Greenpeace-India, deals only with the direct health impact of coal and not climate change. But even ignoring the rising pain of global warming, the bleak report outlines that coal consumption in India is causing over...
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Spring/Summer open burning season started on March 1
2013-03-07 20:30:28| Waste Management - Topix.net
Spring/summer open burning season begins Friday, March 1, and the Montana Department of Environmental Quality reminds people that only clean, untreated wood and plant material can be burned legally.
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Settlement binds power co. to stop burning coal
2013-02-26 02:18:49| Energy - Topix.net
One of the largest U.S. electricity producers will stop burning coal at two of its power plants and make deeper pollution cuts at more than a dozen others under a legal settlement reached with the Environmental Protection Agency, eight states and several environmental groups.
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Settlement binds power co. to stop burning coal in Ohio
2013-02-25 22:09:12| Energy - Topix.net
One of the largest U.S. electricity producers will stop burning coal at two of its power plants under a legal settlement reached with the EPA, eight states and several environmental groups.
Md., D.C. utilities pay paper mills burning black liquor for alternative fuel credits
2013-02-23 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: When Maryland and the District set floors requiring electric utilities to use increasing amounts of renewable energy, environmentalists cheered the prospect of money going to new solar and wind projects. But today, several years after the legislation went into effect, it has had an unexpected outcome. Thanks to a wrinkle in the definition of renewable, the lion's share of the money used to meet those standards is flowing to paper companies that burn "black liquor,' a byproduct of the wood-pulping...
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